Lead Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Lead Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £89,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 773 771 1096
Rank change year-on-year -2 +325 -275
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 129 202 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.22% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 65 50 58
10th Percentile £48,829 £65,343 £62,975
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £89,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £92,625 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,000 £70,308
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.41% +0.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer.

Salary trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -51 91 £70,000 -2.78% 4
Scotland -27 61 £75,000 -
England +5 60 £100,000 +25.00% 6
London +96 37 £110,000 +29.41% 2
Work from Home +82 29 £80,000 - 4
North of England +37 12 £70,000 +6.13% 3
Yorkshire +70 8 £75,000 +13.71% 3
Wales -11 7 £50,685 -
North West +17 4 £55,000 -23.61%
South West -19 4 £77,500 +7.64% 1
South East -39 4 £59,000 -
Midlands -10 3 £87,500 +16.67%
East Midlands -15 3 £87,500 +16.67%

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Lead Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 83 (64.34%) Finance
2 75 (58.14%) Software Engineering
3 70 (54.26%) AWS
4 68 (52.71%) Cloud Native
5 67 (51.94%) Agile
6 63 (48.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (46.51%) Law
8 59 (45.74%) Java
8 59 (45.74%) CI/CD
8 59 (45.74%) Architectural Design
9 57 (44.19%) Terraform
10 56 (43.41%) Operational Stability
11 55 (42.64%) Community of Practice
11 55 (42.64%) Information Architecture
12 54 (41.86%) Machine Learning
13 53 (41.09%) Artificial Intelligence
14 50 (38.76%) Public Cloud
15 43 (33.33%) Marketing
16 42 (32.56%) Kubernetes
17 41 (31.78%) Azure
18 33 (25.58%) SDLC
19 30 (23.26%) Grafana
20 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
20 27 (20.93%) Linux
20 27 (20.93%) Python
21 24 (18.60%) Splunk
22 23 (17.83%) Go
22 23 (17.83%) AWS Certification
22 23 (17.83%) Continuous Delivery
23 22 (17.05%) Observability

Lead Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.10%) Apache
2 3 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) nginx
3 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (54.26%) AWS
2 41 (31.78%) Azure
3 22 (17.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 22 (17.05%) Datadog
4 21 (16.28%) GCP
5 10 (7.75%) Serverless
6 8 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.43%) Azure AKS
7 7 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.33%) dbt
9 3 (2.33%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.33%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.55%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.55%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.55%) PaaS
11 1 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.33%) Firewall
1 3 (2.33%) IPv4
1 3 (2.33%) VPN
2 2 (1.55%) OSPF
2 2 (1.55%) VLAN
3 1 (0.78%) HTTP
3 1 (0.78%) Network Security
3 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.33%) Airbyte
3 3 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.33%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.33%) Looker
3 3 (2.33%) Power BI
3 3 (2.33%) Tableau
4 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.78%) Big Data
5 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.78%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 83 (64.34%) Finance
2 63 (48.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 60 (46.51%) Law
4 43 (33.33%) Marketing
5 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
6 11 (8.53%) Banking
7 10 (7.75%) Investment Banking
8 7 (5.43%) Legal
9 3 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.05%) Kafka
1 22 (17.05%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (7.75%) Spring Boot
3 7 (5.43%) Node.js
3 7 (5.43%) React
3 7 (5.43%) Svelte
4 3 (2.33%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.78%) LAMP
5 1 (0.78%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 68 (52.71%) Cloud Native
2 50 (38.76%) Public Cloud
3 18 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (13.95%) Legacy Code
4 14 (10.85%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.33%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.55%) Clustering
7 2 (1.55%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.78%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.78%) Life Science
8 1 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.93%) Linux
2 8 (6.20%) Windows
3 4 (3.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.55%) Unix
5 1 (0.78%) CentOS
5 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (58.14%) Software Engineering
2 67 (51.94%) Agile
3 59 (45.74%) Architectural Design
3 59 (45.74%) CI/CD
4 56 (43.41%) Operational Stability
5 55 (42.64%) Community of Practice
5 55 (42.64%) Information Architecture
6 54 (41.86%) Machine Learning
7 53 (41.09%) Artificial Intelligence
8 33 (25.58%) SDLC
9 23 (17.83%) Continuous Delivery
10 22 (17.05%) Observability
11 21 (16.28%) Identity Access Management
11 21 (16.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (16.28%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 19 (14.73%) Architecture Roadmap
12 19 (14.73%) Roadmaps
13 17 (13.18%) Mentoring
13 17 (13.18%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (45.74%) Java
2 27 (20.93%) Python
3 23 (17.83%) Go
4 11 (8.53%) C
4 11 (8.53%) C++
4 11 (8.53%) Rust
5 9 (6.98%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.98%) SQL
6 8 (6.20%) Bash
7 7 (5.43%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.43%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.33%) Bicep
8 3 (2.33%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.55%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (17.83%) AWS Certification
2 4 (3.10%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.10%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.78%) Degree
4 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.55%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.65%) Docker
2 2 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (44.19%) Terraform
2 42 (32.56%) Kubernetes
3 30 (23.26%) Grafana
4 18 (13.95%) Ansible
5 12 (9.30%) Puppet
6 9 (6.98%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.33%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.78%) Autotask
9 1 (0.78%) Cacti
9 1 (0.78%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.78%) Icinga
9 1 (0.78%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (18.60%) Splunk
2 21 (16.28%) Dynatrace
3 7 (5.43%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.65%) Google
5 3 (2.33%) Teradata